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 Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.

Stalin Correspondences

Telegram of G. K. Ordzhonikidze to I. V. Stalin

May 5, 1918

Out of line. Petrograd. Smolny, Stalin.

Note from Kharkov. Adopted 5/V 1918.

Why are you silent, why don't you inform in detail. As with Ukraine, what are the borders, what is our attitude? Krylenko demands an end to hostilities in Ukraine. Skrypnik asks for Antonov. Tell us what we must do as representatives of the Council of People's Commissars. The case becomes hopeless if the Ukrainian Secretariat 1 is left to itself. Please don't put us in this position and tell us what and how 2 .

Ordzhonikidze.

RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. On. 6. D. 54. L. 1. Certified typewritten copy.

Notes:

1 The Secretariat of Ukraine (People's Secretariat) is the first Soviet government of Ukraine, formed in December 1917.

On May 5, 1918, in response to this request, Ordzhonikidze, at the initiative of Stalin, received a copy of the SNK telegram to Antonov-Ovseenko with a message about the establishment of a demarcation line on the Kursk Front (See note 2 to document No. 14).